Jacob Blake’s Father: Why did you handcuff my son?

“Why did I get shot so many times?” Jacob Blake is said to have asked his father during a hospital visit.

“I hate that he was lying there with a wife pinned to the bed,” the father, who is also named Jacob Blake, said during a news conference Thursday.

When asked why the son was handcuffed, the father replies “because he has been arrested.” But he does not know what is suspected of his son.

On Sunday, the 29-year-old was shot The African American Jacob Blake in the back seven times by a white policeman during an intervention in the city of Kenosha in the state of Wisconsin. He was on his way to his car where his children were sitting when the police fired their guns. According to the father, he is paralyzed from the waist down.

Democratic State Gov. Tony Evers says he is outraged that the police have handcuffed Blake.

“Hell yeah,” he said at a news conference, the Chicago Sun Times reported.

– I can’t understand why it happens and I hope we can find a better way to treat him so that he recovers.

The information was widely disseminated in the United States. At 1 pm local time on Friday, Blake’s lawyer announced that his handcuffs had been removed and a date had been set for court hearings, Reuters reports. Then it was not known what the criminal classification is.

Large demonstrations against police violence and riots have rocked Kenosha since the shooting. On Tuesday, a 17-year-old was arrested on suspicion of having shot dead two protesters and wounded a third. On Thursday, National Guard troops from three other states were called to Wisconsin. On Wednesday, Donald Trump declared that he had ordered federal troops to the city. “We will NOT allow looting, burning, violence and lawlessness on the streets of the United States,” the president tweeted.

Jacob Blake’s name was also in the limelight when thousands of people gathered for an anti-racism rally in Washington on Friday. The shooting is the “most heinous crime” to take place since Cesar was executed in Rome, Pastor Jamal Bryant said in a speech in which he harshly criticized Trump supporters, the Washington Post reports.

– When you’re here today, Jacob Blake is paralyzed from the waist down. But even if you cripple us, we can crawl, and on November 3 (Election Day) we will crawl to the polls no matter what you do to us.

At the same time, the Republican calls Senator Rand Paul that the FBI is investigating an incident in which a group of protesters surrounded him as he was on his way from the White House to his hotel Thursday. Paul tells Fox News that he was threatened with death and feared for his life. He says, without saying who would be behind it, that he believes they were people who “were paid for being anarchists.”

Demonstrations and riots It has also happened in several other cities in the United States this week.

Oakland, California, police say between 600 and 700 people participated in violent demonstrations in which they vandalized shops and set fire to a courthouse.

In Minneapolis, where George Floyd died three months ago when a police officer sat on his neck for several minutes, a curfew and a state of emergency were imposed on Wednesday. Mayor Jacob Frey has asked the National Guard for help after violent protests and looting broke out, USA Today writes.

In Chicago, several hundred people gathered for a vigil for Blake and Trayford Pellerin, an African-American man who was shot and killed by police in Lafayette, Louisiana, last week.

On Friday, the Supreme Court ruled City of Richmond green light to tear down statues of southern generals and war memorials, CNN reports. George Floyd’s death in May gave new impetus to the debate over the monuments of the South and the history of slavery in America. However, Friday’s decision does not apply to a publicized statue of the Commander in Chief of the South, Robert E Lee, as it is owned by the state.